• (6/6/01) Chelsea posts even more about the Glyphs:

"I stood in the terminal all night, waiting for Elle. No matter where I looked, I couldn't see her.

It was as if she had lost the directions and location I gave her.

Perhaps my directions and location were incomplete. Then again, I didn't make them, the foreman did. He was supposed to tell Elle where to be. I shouldn't be surprised, really--it's dark underground, even with Elle wearing those bright glasses.
Truly,
Chelsea "

Two things, A) Who is Elle? and B) What dirrections? Can we assume she is refering to: Seven steps down, in a building, I found three rooms. Each room contained a special key to a special lock.

Past the lock, I found a box with a story inside. A wonderful story. It was a story I had seen before, but it felt . . . strange.

My puzzle is the lock I found. Solving it will unlock a world of wonder I cannot describe in my own words.? Or is it much simplier and we have missed it? Claude replies to a post about Chelsea insulting our inability to solve the glyps by saying : "That wasn't a slam, or contempt... that was an honest-to-goodness clue. Obscure, yeah... but a clue, nonetheless. It made no judgements on the work you've done to date - it's totally new information." Then in response to Locucious asking "Well, let's give this post a look-see anyway. "Tubulae" probably means multiple tubes, or paths. Sounds like an underground network, a cave of sorts. We're supposed to arrive at a "location" via"directions." But we don't know what either are." Claude said " Man, you don't know how close you are... " How close are we? Are the glyphs like some obscure road sign? Telling us where on the interenet to go?

• (6/2/01) Chelsea writes Hamish (what? I'm not good enough to get an email? :P) about the glyphs, which she seems to know so much about, "Miguel Chavez claims in this Bungie Sightings forum post that Matt Soell
mentioned the seven dials in his keynote. Well that took some time to come
out. I wonder what else hasn't been mentioned? Of course it's standard
policy that bungie.org people can't win their own competitions... right?
;-)"

If I had hands, I could count the number of people aware of the secret of
the glyphs on one of them.

I wouldn't call my puzzle a "competition," so much as an adventure in
distributed thinking, really.

Anyone may take their shot at it. Who knows--perhaps someone will find the
first of the big secrets of the glyphs and the challenge will kick into the
next gear.

Truly,
Chelsea"

I had kind of figured so, which brings to question, what is the "prize"? I mean how will this story be distributed? It'll have to be cross platform, and most likely downloadable (I doubt that many Bungie fans will trek to Central America to unearth the story, but a few would).

Below are some of the messages she has posted to lure us to the secrets of the Glyphs.

Posted at marathon.org:

Watching the birds fall...

Chelsea Bridge
Friday, 25 May 2001, at 8:24 p.m.


My, this place is busier than I thought it would be. But really, what would I know?

I'm just a lonely pebble with a story to tell. That's all.

But I seem to have locked my story away, and now people are trying to unlock its surface and get to it. I bet, if they pooled their resources, they could accomplish what they're trying to do. It's a good story,
too. They'd enjoy it. Everyone would. Sigh.

Truly, Chelsea


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She follows up with the reply:

My story is not one of the natures of which you speak.

Just ask Mister Chavez.

Truly, Chelsea

The original message can be found here.

Claude Errera is accused as being Chelsea, or being in on the scam, however he clears things up with a message post which makes the game of figuring the glyphs even more appealing,

"Okay - I told Chelsea I'd shut up about this stuff... but I need to put out a couple bits of info first:

1) I did NOT make the glyphs, or have anything to do with the puzzle behind them. (I'm not that good, to be honest.)

2) There is ABSOLUTELY something in them (or behind them, more accurately) that you don't already know. And yes, Bungie's involved.

Okay, I'm done. They're yours, to play with, or to ignore. What's behind them, I already have... so I lose nothing if you give up.

That's pretty much all you'll hear about this puzzle from Chelsea or I about these (for a while, at least)."
- Claude Errera (head honcho at bungie.org)

This means that all of this is official 100% cryptic bungie.

Chelsea writes to the marathon story page with this,

"Your readers must solve my puzzle. They are the ones who will truly enjoy what it leads to.

They all deserve the reward--they're smart and loyal people.

I'm going to tell you what the good Hippieman wants to know: The goal is rooted in Marathon. Deeply. Decode the keys and reap
the pleasures. (They're almost unimaginable.--their impact will be of monumental force.) "

Yep, its Marathon related! Now we just have to work together!

• Chelsea writes on the halo forum that "Warfare is overrated. I prefer shields of light and swords of feather. Have I gone too far? Or have I not traveled enough" is this a clue that the story is not set in the future, but the past? Or is she simply saying that she prefers a good story to a game where you kill your enemy?

• Chelsea writes on the marathon.org forum

"Seven steps down, in a building, I found three rooms. Each room contained a special key to a special lock.

Past the lock, I found a box with a story inside. A wonderful story. It was a story I had seen before, but it felt . . . strange.

My puzzle is the lock I found. Solving it will unlock a world of wonder I cannot describe in my own words.

Truly, Chelsea "

Now besides giving us directions, 3 rooms, 3 keys... this reminds me of the puzzle to solve the mystery HEX code on the www.bungie.org page, and some of the older story page contests Hamish used to do before he updated every day. 3 rooms, 3 glyphs? 3 keys each to 3 locks. So we unlock the glyphs to find the story? Does this mean it leads to a URL? perhaps an IP address? How will this story be delivered to us?